Press cranks up narrative of police racial injustice after Columbus cop stops a knife-wielding teen from stabbing another girl

Fresh off the police brutality trial of Derek Chauvin, business is booming for the racial grievance industry, this time in a southeast Colombus, Ohio residential neighborhood.

Here are the headlines that ran, starting with NPR:

Columbus Police Shoot And Kill Black, Teenage Girl

Here's the SEO of the same headline, and likely an earlier version of the headline above:

16-year-old-black-girl-who-called-for-help-fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-sa(ys)

There's this from the New York Times:

Teenage Girl Is Fatally Shot by Police in Columbus, Officials Say

This from the Columbus Dispatch:

Ma’Khia Bryant: Columbus police release body camera footage in shooting of 16-year-old

Got it? The narrative has been set: Predatory white police on the prowl for black people find a blameless 16-year old girl minding her own business and shoot her dead in cold blood.

The protestors are out, and already race-hustler lawyer, Benjamin Crump, is out front, spreading a phony narrative about an 'unarmed' teen:

Part 8 — the worst lie yet. Ben Crump claims Ma’Khia was unarmed. pic.twitter.com/6tcvuct1o5 — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 21, 2021

Guess a knife held in the stab position isn't a 'weapon,' is that it?

There is also the sudden appearance of 'relatives' who have swarmed to the cameras, telling us about how 'maternal' and 'peaceful' the deceased was

The girl was in foster care, but we’re supposed to believe what her mother, who did not have custody, “knew” about her daughter’s character and intentions? I don’t think so.
I find it appalling that the police aren’t being given any credit for saving the life of the intended victim.
The more the black community claims to care about black lives, the more I think those lives don’t matter at all. They just don’t think white cops have the right to shot in self-defence.
These people really don’t care about each other at all.

White police should refuse to respond to Black neighborhoods. If they are the racist killers that many Black people say they are, this should make them very happy, even in a life or death situation!

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White police should refuse to respond to black neighborhoods. If they are the racist killers that many black people say they are, this should make them very happy, even in a life or death situation!

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